QUALIFICATIONS AND APPOINTMENTS
Gwion is a former US-UK Fulbright Scholar and has an LLM from New York University specialising in international human rights, language rights and the interface between law and security. This led to his appointment as a Visiting Scholar at the European University Institute in Florence where he pursued his interest in language rights in EU law.

Prior to studying abroad, Gwion was a Scholar of Jesus College, Oxford, where he obtained a BA and a BCL (First Class) in Jurisprudence. Whilst studying for the BCL, he focused on English and French public law, human rights, international dispute settlement and the public international law of the sea. During his time at Oxford, Gwion won several prizes for his performance in examinations on administrative law, public international law, criminal law and Roman law, and was awarded the Welson Prize for the most promising law student at Jesus College. He is also a former winner of the Oxford-Cambridge Intervarsity Mooting Competition.

During the BVC, Gwion was a Bedingfield Scholar of Gray’s Inn and a Sankey Scholar of Jesus College, Oxford. He has lectured in law at the University of Wales and regularly gives seminars, both in the UK and abroad, on language rights in UK, EU and US law. His first book, Hawl i’r Gymraeg (‘The Right to Welsh’), was published in 2008.

Gwion is a founder member and Assistant Director of the Landmark Chambers Centre for Environmental Law and is a regular presenter of the Centre’s podcasts. He also sits on Landmark Chambers’ Management Committee.

In the summer of 2008, Gwion was appointed legal adviser to the charity Criminal Justice Interventions Wales. Having worked as a broadcast journalist, Gwion contributes regularly to television and radio programmes for the BBC, commenting on issues arising in human rights and international law. In January 2009, he will participate in the BBC’s coverage of the inauguration of Barack Obama as US President in Washington.

Gwion is Welsh-English bilingual and has good French and Italian.